1812 in Germany
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Events from the year 1812 in Germany.
Incumbents[edit]
Kingdoms[edit]
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)[1]
- Kingdom of Bavaria
- Maximilian I (1 January 1806 – 13 October 1825)
- Kingdom of Saxony
- Frederick Augustus I (20 December 1806 – 5 May 1827)
- Kingdom of Württemberg
- Frederick I (22 December 1797 – 30 October 1816)
Grand Duchies[edit]
- Grand Duke of Baden
- Grand Duke of Hesse
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)[3]
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Charles II (2 June 1794 – 6 November 1816)[4]
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- Karl August (1809–1815)
Principalities[edit]
- Schaumburg-Lippe
- George William (13 February 1787 - 1860)
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 - 28 June 1867)[6]
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
- Principality of Lippe
- Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)[7]
- Principality of Reuss-Greiz
- Heinrich XIII (28 June 1800-29 January 1817)
- Waldeck and Pyrmont
- Friedrich Karl August (29 August 1763 – 24 September 1812)
- George I (24 September 1812 – 9 September 1813)
Duchies[edit]
- Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold III (16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817)[8]
- Duke of Brunswick
- Frederick William (16 October 1806 – 16 June 1815)[9]
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick[3]
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- Bernhard II (24 December 1803–20 September 1866)[11]
- Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816)[12]
Events[edit]
- 20 February – Weber and his friend, clarinettist Heinrich Baermann, stay overnight in Berlin with the family of Baermann's former teacher Joseph Beer (father of Giacomo Meyerbeer).[13][14]
- May – Conference of Dresden
- 2 July – Ludwig van Beethoven visits his patron Prince Kinsky, seeking an advance on his promised remuneration.[13]
- 20 December – The first volume of Grimms' Fairy Tales is published in Germany.
- 31 December – Giacomo Meyerbeer becomes the toast of Munich after performing at a concert for the benefit of wounded Bavarian soldiers.[13]
- The original Breidenbacher Hof hotel in Düsseldorf, Germany, opens to the public. (It is destroyed by bombing in 1943 and later rebuilt at a different location.)
Births[edit]
- 6 February – Berthold Damcke, German composer (d. 1875)[15]
- 27 April – Friedrich von Flotow, German composer (d. 1883)[16]
- 14 May – Emilie Mayer, German composer (d. 1883)
- 9 June – Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d. 1910)
- 24 December – Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (d. 1894)
- 28 December – Julius Rietz, German cellist, conductor and composer (d. 1877)[17]
Deaths[edit]
- 24 March – Johann Jakob Griesbach, German Biblical commentator (born 1745)
- 29 March – Johann Friedrich Dryander, German-born portrait painter (born 1756)
- 14 July – Christian Gottlob Heyne, German librarian and classicist (born 1729)*16 June – Franz Pforr, German Nazarene movement painter (born 1788)
- 10 July – Carl Ludwig Willdenow, German botanist (born 1765)
- 23 August – Tethart Philipp Christian Haag, German-born Dutch portrait artist (born 1737)
- 19 September – Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker (b. 1744)
- 21 September – Emanuel Schikaneder, German dramatist, actor and singer (b. 1751)[18]
References[edit]
- ^ "Frederick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica. 30 July 2018.
- ^ von Weech, Friedrich. "Karl Ludwig Friedrich". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). p. Onlinefassung. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
- ^ a b c Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 38.
- ^ Huish, Robert (1821). Public and Private Life His Late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty George The Third. T. Kelly. p. 170.
- ^ a b "Oldenburg Royal Family". Monarchies of Europe. Archived from the original on 17 March 2006. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "Monarchies of Europe". Archived from the original on 14 June 2007.
- ^ Almanach de Gotha (87th ed.). Justus Perthes. 1850. p. 38.
- ^ J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
- ^ Gerhard Schildt: Von der Restauration zur Reichsgründungszeit, in Horst-Rüdiger Jarck / Gerhard Schildt (eds.), Die Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. Jahrtausendrückblick einer Region, Braunschweig 2000, pp. 753–766.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 751.
- ^ "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- ^ Albinus, Robert (1985). Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung (in German). Leer: Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg. p. 371. ISBN 3-7921-0320-6.
- ^ a b c MusicandHistory.com – 1812 Archived 2012-08-28 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 23 November 2013
- ^ Weston, Pamela. "Heinrich Baermann." in Grove Music Online (subscription required)
- ^ Wilibald Gurlitt (editor): Damcke, Berthold. In Riemann Musiklexikon, 12th completely revised edition in three volumes, volume 1: Personenteil A–K. B. Schott’s Söhne, Mainz 1959, p. 362.
- ^ The New Kobbé's Opera Book. Ebury Press. 1997. p. 231. ISBN 9780091814106.
- ^ Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- ^ Sonnek, Anke (2005), "Schikaneder, Emanuel", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 22, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 753–754; (full text online)